Tag: Silver
No collection of English coins is complete without “The First Lizzie”—Elizabeth I. This tiny hammered silver coin represents the day-to-day currency of the Elizabethan age. While the rich…
We have traveled from the modern milled coins of the 20th century, past the hammered copper of Charles II, all the way back to the Early Medieval period. This coin…
Leaving the round milled coins of Europe behind, we travel East to the isolationist world of Edo-period Japan. For the Western collector, Japanese coinage from the 19th century…